Gambia: Army Chief Pledges Allegiance To Jammeh

(JollofNews) – The head of the Gambian army has used his New Year message to pledged his loyalty and unflinching support to President Yahya Jammeh as the political impasse continues.

Lieutenant General Ousman Bargie, Chief of Defence Staff of the Gambian Armed Forces, said he and other head of security forces in the country are strongly behind President Jammeh.

Mr Jammeh is refusing to handover power after losing last month’s elections to opposition candidate Adama Barrow.

He has vowed to defend the sovereignty of the Gambia should regional leaders go ahead with threats to send a Senegal led military force to flush him out of power.

But as the deadline nears, the army boss praised Mr Jammeh’s personal commitment and vision of making the Gambia Armed Forces ‘not only as one of the most developed armies but that which is second to none in the world’.

“On behalf of the service chiefs, officers and other ranks of the entire members of the Gambia Armed Forces and their families and indeed on behalf of my family and on my own behalf, to wish you a joyous season of celebration of the New Year,” Lieutenant General Bargie wrote.

“May I please seize this opportunity to also renew to Your Excellency the assurance of the unflinching loyalty and support of the Gambia Armed Forces to Your Excellency, the Government and people of the Gambia.”

Jammeh has used the army to strenthen his grip on power

The army chief who had earlier pledged his support to Adama Barrow, who was declared winner of the election by the country’s electoral commission added: “In the same vein, please permit me to commend you for your demonstrated personal commitment to the Gambia Armed Forces which is guided by your vision of making the Gambia Armed Forces not only as one of the most developed armies but that which is second to none in the world.

“May Allah continue to bless, guide and protect Your Excellency, family, the Government and people of the Islamic Republic of the Gambia at all times.”

11 thoughts on “Gambia: Army Chief Pledges Allegiance To Jammeh”

“making the Gambia Armed Forces not only as one of the most developed armies but that which is second to none in the world.”
I NOW KNOW HOW JAMMEH THINKS HE CAN WIN A FIGHT AGAINST ECOWAS HE INTENDS TO MAKE THEM LAUGH THEMSELVES TO DEATH

WITH NO SHIPS
NO AIRFORCE OPPS SORRY ONE JET FIGHTER TYAT IS OVER 30 YEARS OLD
NO SUBMARINES
MO SMART BOMBS ACTUALLY NO DUMB BOMBS EITHER
NO MISSILES
NO DRONES APPART FROM PAPER PLANES
NO PARATROOPERS
NO SATELLITE’S AND NO ACCESS TO ANY
NO PROPPER COMMUNICATIONS MATERIAL

NO BRAINS :-WONT SAY HIGH ON DRUGS BECAUSE EVEN THE BIGGEST JUNKEY WOULD NOT SAY THE GAMBIAN IS SECOND TO NONE.
ANYONE THAT TRUST THEIR LIVES AND THAT OF THEIR FAMILIES REALLY SUFFERS FROM SERIOUS SELF HATE

You’ll be tracked and arrested for inciting genocide(ethnic cleansing) in the Gambia. The cyber world of justice can do it. Human blood is sacred, you have had enough of it on your hands. All of us are not a joke online. We must be responsible for what we say. Bloody idiot like [email protected] Soli will die more than twenty times. WANTED bloody genocidal @Babu Soli, you think Jammeh is an empowered custodian of human live and death…Death won’t be easy for you because you took lives that you can’t make or mend. Bloody, greedy and mentally retarded hypocrite. The interpol should come with snake trapping equipment because they’ll be dealing with an fatally dangerous species of viper.

So the entire world is lying when every sane human being says:
Yahya Jammeh legacy is
22 years of rape, murder and torture.
A cds who is half illiterate who has to wear local talisman around his neck to address his troops. An imbecile whose only claim to fame is blind loyalty to a criminal despot who cares only about himself and will gladly shed your blood because you are of no worth in his world. Yahya does not care about you or the other men and women of GAF. He is just using you. If you must die, at least do so in service to your nation not to help Jammeh continue his privilege lifestyle.

Dr Isatou Sarr,
Define literacy and illiteracy to assist us come to terms with your assertion. You pseudo Dr. Irresponsible comments coming from your quarters are the perpetrators of the heightened differences among Gambians. When you take your stitched title to believe you are above your fellow citizens because of western education you only contribute to unruliness and senselessness.
Besides, have you been raped by President Jammeh? Have you witnessed an episode of his rapings?

This so-called run-away Doctors are the problems of our country.
An intellectual reasons,but this so-called doctors just jump to conclusions without analysis.Have you or your relative been ever raped or tortured by Jammeh?
Come over and remove him from power if you really care for the Gambians as you claimed.Fighting a war in the comfort of your house/office on a key board may not yield the desired results.

Some Gambians are unpatriotic as I can see in their comments here. You wish to die for the psychiatric out-gone Yahya Jammeh Bakili Mansa? Your wish shall be granted to you as ECOMOG Forces will soon flushed out the illiterate Prof Dr Sheik Alhaji Jammeh. With many titles, a reasonable person will know that Jammeh is clueless